Author: Helen Redfern

Love wins. A strange title for a blog all about death and destruction (that I sidestep dealing with yet again in the hope that you won’t notice and won’t get too frustrated with me!)....

Rejoice, rejoice, Christ is in you The hope of glory in our hearts He lives, He lives, His breath is in you Arise a mighty army, we arise Now is the time for us...

Back in Deuteronomy 27, Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people – When you have crossed the Jordan, set up these stones on Mount Ebal, as I command you today, and coat...

‘If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again.’ A familiar saying to encourage us all to have another go when we’ve tried and made a mess of something. Sometimes this is harder...

To set the scene for today’s blog, have a listen to this – Mahalia Jackson singing ‘Joshua fit the battle of Jericho’ in 1957. This song is a well-known African-American spiritual believed to have...

It’s the start of a new chapter for the Israelites. They have a new leader. A new era has dawned. They have crossed over the river Jordan into the land that God had promised...

And I know in our lives, God has caused a miracle. An emotional miracle. He has turned the most desperate of situations into good. He has delivered us from our despair and provided the...

Finally the day has come. It is time to cross the River Jordan. It’s been a long time in coming. Can you remember back to the middle of October when God delivered the Israelites...